Error messages like this that reference Terraform are still

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Error messages like this that reference Terraform are still strange to see Also I created the app service plan via pulumi made a change that should ve caused a replace Why didn t it destroy the resource and replace with a new one but instead throw this strange error

stocky-spoon-28903 · Answer

Hi < colossal room 15708> I agree the error messages are jarring but since we use the Terraform provider under the hood there isn t too much we can do about it short of a wholesale grep replace for terraform in error messages which still may give incorrect error messages and looks disingenuous to boot

stocky-spoon-28903 · Answer

Some providers are better than others about giving you the facts of an error instead of attempting to be conversational though

stocky-spoon-28903 · Answer

This particular problem I think is due to the requirement for unique names you may need to turn on the delete before create behaviour in this case if you ve set the name explicitly and opted out of the autonamer which circumvents this

colossal-room-15708 · Answer

Oh yeah that makes sense I ll specify that option

colossal-room-15708 · Answer

Also I hope we re soon going to have an Azure provider without terraform dependency

stocky-spoon-28903 · Answer

We have been looking into that it s probably a way off but can t give a date at this point